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keystone xl pipeline

This month's New Yorker magazine features a very good article by Ryan Lizza entitled, "The President and the Pipeline," which examines the merits and politics behind President Obama's upcoming decision on the northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline.

If you want to get a sense of what the Keystone XL pipeline would do to Gulf Coast communities (and which communities will bear the brunt of refining 830,000 barrels of tar sands oil a day), look no further than Manchester, a neighborhood in Houston’s East End.

As Keystone XL protesters savor their victory to postpone the pipeline project, another oil policy decision this week did not turn out so well; a plan to expand drilling operations in the oil-damaged Gulf and pristine arctic.